They were obliterated instantly, vanishing in clouds of expanding gas.

His consciousness of the architectural detail was instantly obliterated when he saw the woman sitting on a padded sofa, quietly awaiting him.

Janeway couldn't imagine this part of it; the terror as suddenly, with no warning at all, the populace of the planet was swallowed by a mutating wormhole and instantly obliterated.

Sean blew a smoke ring that was instantly obliterated by the slipstream through the bullet holes in the canopy.

Why, ten thousand years of human thought and progress would be instantly obliterated.

Several, at least eight, were instantly obliterated, lighting space with fireballs of primary detonation, then a second plume as the ships weapons or fuel ignited.

Upon passing the blade of a knife athwart the veins, the water closed over it immediately, as with us, and also, in withdrawing it, all traces of the passage of the knife were instantly obliterated.

And the Crabber people, along with their planet and all their works, were instantly obliterated in the supernova blast.

The electrical substation was instantly obliterated.

Unworthy visitors are instantly obliterated, as goes the story of the caretaker who was turned into dandelion fluff.